Game over: UN elects Iran to its commission on … women’s rights

posted at 5:52 pm on April 29, 2010 by Allahpundit

Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashings are required for women judged “immodest.”

Just days after Iran abandoned a high-profile bid for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council, it began a covert campaign to claim a seat on the Commission on the Status of Women, which is “dedicated exclusively to gender equality and advancement of women,” according to its website.

This is the same group whose Human Rights Council includes luminaries like China and Saudi Arabia. See now why Ahmadinejad always includes a passage in his annual speech about expanding the number of permanent members in the Security Council or giving more power to the General Assembly? In the interest of “equality,” there’s no laugh test for exerting influence at the UN. The task for its more cretinous members is simply to extend that principle to the real levers of power. Because Iran’s all about equality, you see.

Go have a look at what the newest defender of international women’s rights is up to these days.

The U.S. couldn’t muster a word of opposition — not even call for a vote. That would be because . . . why? Because our policy is not to confront and challenge the brutal regime for which rape and discrimination are institutionalized policies. No, rather, we are in the business of trying to ingratiate ourselves, and making the U.S. as inoffensive as possible to the world’s thugocracies.

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I noticed AT&T was offering “The Stoning of Soray M” on its Pay Per View setup(UVerse). Made me wonder if 1) there is a market for it they are seeking(Conservatives and exile Iranians?) or 2) a Conservative is running the outfit? Of course Michael Moore’s capitalism doc was an option too.

Well, I suppose when you’re permanently locked in the 8th century, and believe that women’s breasts cause earthquakes, nothing is too idiotic. But could we please cut the crap about the “scientific and mathematical advancements” for which the muzzi’s are responsible? Next we’ll be told by Muslims that beheadings are the latest advancement in treating dandruff.

The U.S. couldn’t muster a word of opposition — not even call for a vote. That would be because . . . why? Because our policy is not to confront and challenge the brutal regime for which rape and discrimination are institutionalized policies. No, rather, we are in the business of trying to ingratiate ourselves, and making the U.S. as inoffensive as possible to the world’s thugocracies.

Don’t worry, the man who the Iranians send as their representative will only be looking out for the Islamic rights of women…to be beaten, stoned, hanged, and imprisoned for their obvious crimes of showing too much ankle, tempting men who rape them, or getting a tan.

yes, this is merely blowback for the acts of the US Government against Iran!

The Mullahs are actually fun loving Free Traders at heart, its just that the USA is evil and our foreign policy makes them do bad things, such as slaughtering women.

If we simply shut up and ignore this, renounce and foreign policy of the past and apologize and pursue no sanctions whatsover…the IRanians will become Great Trade Partners, the great freedom loving capitalist that they are!

I’d like to hear from all those ‘professors’
of ‘women’s studies’
about this issue …. how will they celebrate this great honor to Iran ? Maybe they’ll lecture us illitrate masses about how women in Iran have a right to choose : a right to choose if they want be shot or flogged for speaking out about their own rape

Iran must be paying off UN Buearcrats like Saddam was for cover, which means if the US, especially if led by a Repub, ever does anything to take them down the International Left will politicize this to no ends

Obama released a press release blaming Bush for the deaths in Iran. “Let me be clear, the former administration promoted boobquakes and skin tanning. They are the reason the Iranians have to resort to unusual policies on dress. Just the other day a Boobquake leveled my home state of Hawaii. The past administration forgot to turn off the earthquake switch. I will solve this problem by regulating the use of the earthquake switch….”

Iran will be able to give the UN valuable counsel in the proper method of beating women. They wouldn’t want the UN to give out bad advice on this important issue. /s

Isn’t IamaDingBat coming to the UN soon? This ought to give him something to crow about in his speech. It should really help in showing the Iranians the UN is serious about imposing harsh sanctions some century.

Of course the Useless Nitwits, those free-loading, neer-do-wells with the boiling hatred of all things Judeo-Christian, would put Iran on a ‘council’ proclaiming Gender Equality. After all, Iranian women are equally free to endure genital mutilation, rapes and then give birth to male children.

canopfor, I don’t think we want him to say in english what he just said. Lessee, there was something about cows & pigs & a certain religious figure…let’s just say it wouldn’t get past the censors at Comedy Central. ;-)